Me and my girlfriend, both 15, have been together for a year now and recently she’s been getting more worried about her mom judging her for things like going out. It’s starting to get in the way of us hanging out and she told me that she doesn’t want to go to homecoming because she’s worried that her mom will ask stuff like “where are you going? Who are you going with? Why are you dressed up like this?” I’ve wanted to go with her for a while and she told me to just go with friends and I’m very disappointed in this. What can I do?
TL;DR: Girlfriend doesn’t want to go to homecoming due to worries of her mother judging
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Does her mom know you’re dating? Is she not allowed to go to homecoming? Maybe if she met you she might be ok with her going with you.
It’s pretty common for parents to ask where are you going and who with but if she’s not allowed to do these things or will be treated poorly for it, then I can see why she would hesitate.
Is there a history of her mom being mean to her about stuff like this?
Yeah, there may be other things going on here. I don’t want to make you feel bad but this may be that she’s hiding you from someone else and not have anything to do with her mother.
Maybe your girlfriends mum is just trying to be part of her life. Sometimes mum’s are like that and they get rejected and it makes them worse.